In October, the center organizes the symposium “Citing our queer-feminist streams: STS-CH and ZGS turning 25 together“: organized in collaboration with the Swiss Association for the Studies of Science, Technology and Society (STS-CH).

This symposium explores the analytical entanglements of queer-feminist and STS perspectives by bringing together scholars who work in/on and through queer-feminist STS. As such, the event strives to foster exchange on the (historic) genealogies and (future) potentialities of bringing queer-feminist and STS ambitions together, to contribute to citing (and sighting) queer-feminist STS in the Swiss context, and to nurture connections within the (inter)national community of queer-feminist STS scholars and beyond.

To do so, the symposium features three moderated dialogues that each bring two scholars from queer-feminist STS into an exchange, complemented by multilateral discussions and time for open exchange. All three dialogues engage with a serious of leading questions, plus specific questions that relate more closely to the individual discussants’ areas of work and expertise. 

These leading questions are:

• What constitutes queer-feminist STS, and what defines its ‘critical edge’?
• What are the challenges and possibilities for STS and gender studies as two (emerging) disciplines, and how to trick related boundaries?
• What are knowledge practices to be fostered within queer-feminist STS?

The podium welcomes: Nolwenn Bühler (Lausanne, CH), Delphine Gardey (Geneva, CH), Nina Lykke (Linköping, SWE), Mariacristina Sciannamblo (Rome, IT), Banu Subramaniam (Wellesley, USA), and Jutta Weber (Paderborn, D).

16 October 2026, 12 PM – 8 pm, Bluebox, Holbeinstrasse 12, 4051 Basel